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- Subject: USCF Release - Pro's may compete in Olympics
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:52:48 GMT
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- For Immediate Release - December 18, 1992
- Contact: Steve Penny or Woody Franklin - 719/578-4581
-
- Professional Cyclists Eligible for Olympic Competition
-
- In an agreement announced on Thursday by the Union Cycliste
- Internationale (UCI), the international governing body for the sport
- of cycling, professional cyclists will have the opportunity to compete
- in Olympic competition.
-
- The agreement was reached between the UCI and the International
- Olympic Committee (IOC) at IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland,
- after a meeting between UCI President Hein Verbruggen and IOC President
- Juan Antonio Samaranch.
-
- This ruling will offer the opportunity for many of the worlds top
- cyclists to compete in Atlanta in 1996, including three-time Tour de France
- champion Greg LeMond.
-
- "This decision will allow cycling to keep pace with other sports
- affiliated with the Olympic movement," commented Jerry Lace, Executive
- Director of the United States Cycling Federation (USCF). "With many of
- the Olympic sports allowing professionals to compete at the Olympics, this
- move indicates a willingness of the UCI and the IOC to stay abreast of the
- ever changing relationship between professionalism and the Olympic Games."
-
- "This will also allow the U.S. to field what could be the strongest
- cycling team in the history of our participation in the Olympic Games,"
- added Lace.
-
- For more information, contact Steve Penny or Woody Franklin
- at 719/578-4581.
-
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- USOC release follows:
-
- Professional cyclists now eligible for Olympics
- The International Cycling Union and the International Olympic
- Committee announced Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland, that
- professional cyclists will be eligible for the 1996 Olympic Games
- in Atlanta. The number of cyclists will remain about the same, but
- each country will be able to enter up to five athletes, as opposed
- to the current limit of three. Stories moved on UPI on December 17.
-